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Sketchfab Spotlight | September 2022
A collection of the latest and greatest pieces from Sketchfab users
Sean VanGorder
Re: How do I go about fixing these baking distortions on a stylized character
- The first step is to design the lowpoly precisely according to the reference art/high poly, placing edges to support these details (like, for instance, having an edge that runs along the connection between boot and sole).
- These edges can also be used for UV splits, that way material separations will be razor sharp and will never depend on texture resolution.
- You can of course also control the baking rays with a custom cage to avoid wavy cylinders, but that's a bit of an obvious one.
- And lastly, you can also rely on manually editing the resulting textures. And this will be especially easy and relevant if the UVs have been split along material separations.
Overall you need to let go of the idea of baking begin a blind "retopo then UVs then hit bake" chain of events because it really isn't. The quality of the result almost fully depends on the way the lowpoly geo is built ... just like with old school "pixel based" texturing on ps1/ps2 era models really. You will not be "fixing" these distortions, you'll need to model your low with them in mind in the first place. But of course if this is your first time with all this this is a bit of a chicken and egg thing :D
Here's an extreme example of the principles above :
Also note that this model didn't even use a highpoly to bake from - the whole look comes from applying the principles above + adding a nmap bevel all around the panels. But of course it could receive baked highpoly details too.
One last remark : once your lowpoly and UVs are taking shape you can also take a few minutes/an hour painting in landmarks with a simple brush, just to get a feel of how the texture distortion will behave.
I can only recommend the study of models from Nintendo games, they are extremely tight in all these areas. That's the beauty of them always developing on low-end hardware, as it forces them to make pristine assets that look good even with lowres textures (while avoiding the pitfall of spending days on highpoly models).
pior
Re: Sketchbook: Cameron (Asura ) Cooper
Finished Hellboy and made a short video showing off the model.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/RnowYe
Asura
Re: What Are You Working On? (3D) 2022
Sculpt of Fire Guard fella for Artstation Challenge Dragon's Rise: Forgotten Realms (Game Art)
idli
Re: What Are You Working On? (3D) 2022
Since i am a big Fan of the upcoming Black Myth Wukong game already!
I did a FanArt based on this amazing concept ArtStation - Two mouse.
If you are interested check it out here:
ArtStation - Two Mouse - Realtime Character (Fan Art)
Confrontation
Sketchfab Spotlight | August 2022
A collection of the latest and greatest pieces from Sketchfab users
Sean VanGorder
Airbørn
I am happy to call many of the people we worked with back then my friends and colleagues. It has been quite a ride.
Follow me to the last page for the latest updates
https://polycount.com/discussion/62779/airborn#latest
https://linktr.ee/airborn.art
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As we are moving closer to our first demo, i thought it might be time to start a dump for all our stuff over here...
So first of all what is Airbørn (not Airborne, more like born in the air, with a propeller as the o, awsum isn't it?
)?Airborn is a universe we are working for well, humm... quite some time i think 2 of us started experimenting with the world in 2006 maybe late 2005 i'm not sure, so it went quite a long way from the first ideas and artworks to what it is now.
Airborn plays in a steampunkish (sort off early industrial, more brutal then the fine victorian steampunk) world quite a while after the World collapsed from over exploitation.
Our first Demo will take place in a story around Piño (he got the name after he was designed, as at first his projectname was just "boy" and a lot of people said "oh he looks just like Pinocchio" and also posta and niño - courier boy)
it's been done with Unreal Tournament 3, we created almost every asset from ground up, as the unreal assets didn't help us much (as opposed to some other mods that are way further but can reuse assets, like animations, shader etc) the only assets we reused are sounds, but even those will be replaced if we win at least a little amount of money at MSUC
http://nonpublic.airbørn.de/wip/neox/boy01/09.jpg an earlier design from 2006
newer image should update to the latest build but i'm too lazy :P we worked on the colors and changed some details
the zbrush sculpthe wants to be a postman just like his father was (more about that story part later
), he is living with his grandparents
only one of them is modelled yet.
the first demo will take place on one small part of his home island, the harbour of said island
we are currently working to get the rough framework to be ready to add more
environment and gameplay, so the first demo will mostly be just about the artdirection, you will be able to walk around look at stuff, do some veeeeeeeery basic gameplay (really not much, so don't expect too much).
so i guess i just opened a junk yard for all our stuff, going to post a brief history of the enemy design later in a seperate post, i guess this is enough for now to give an overview.
you can see some of the other stuff over at moddB:
http://ww
w.moddb.com/mods/airborn
Neox
UE4 - Autumn Scene
ArtStation Link Here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/3qnmJD
This Environment is made in Unreal Engine. It was actually more a project for myself to understand how to create a nice Landscape using the Virtual Texturing, Stylized Foliage, Rocks and also how to create a nice composition and a color palette.
I was highly inspired by some other artists: Jasmin Habezai-Fekri, Sophie Rose Stübinger and Victoria Zavhorodnia.
The House is actually based on the Concept Art Farm Fable from Kiel Whitaker (https://www.artstation.com/artwork/g2LvL8)
In this project I also learned how to create Foliage and Rocks.
The softwares I used are: Unreal Engine 4, Maya, ZBrush, Substance Painter, Substance Designer and Adobe Photoshop.
I also wanted to learn how to make a Stylized Sky, unfortunatly the final result in the Sky is not what I wanted to do, the clouds are actually planes with the textures of the clouds. From other Environments that I saw, I think the other artists use a SkyBox or SkySphere but I'm not sure.
Pmartinlopez
Re: Sketchbook : Teng Hin Chan
Skipped a few months, haha but this is the final outcome
more on artstation : https://www.artstation.com/artwork/xYLY3m
hhalf
Re: Condemned Hallway [ WIP - C&C ]
Thanks everyone!
And I think I'm done. Been collecting some images for an Artstation post and thought I'd share.
iansmithartist